One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.